A bilingual poet, translator and an academic, Sutapa Chaudhuri, PhD, teaches English at a college near Kolkata, India. She has two poetry collections—Broken Rhapsodies(2011) andTouching Nadir(2014).This poem is a response to the condition of Indian women and their experience of violence, and domestic abuse, including rape, dowry deaths, female foeticide, honour killings, abandonment and countless other heinous crimes…